Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett

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What is free will? Is redemption possible? Can logic help us answer moral questions? Renowned Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles all of these topics and many more in this remarkable novel, widely regarded as one of the classic masterpieces of literature. Follow the Karamazov family through the travails that transpire after the murder of their father, and expand your intellectual horizons with a work that celebrated thinkers such as Einstein, Freud, and Pope Benedict XVI cite as one of their favorites.

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• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781775416883
• Langue: English

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THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Translated by
CONSTANCE GARNETT
 
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The Brothers Karamazov First published in 1880 ISBN 978-1-775416-88-3 © 2009 The Floating Press
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Contents
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PART I BOOK I - THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY Chapter I - Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Chapter II - He Gets Rid of His Eldest Son Chapter III - The Second Marriage and the Second Family Chapter IV - The Third Son, Alyosha Chapter V - Elders BOOK II - AN UNFORTUNATE GATHERING Chapter I - They Arrive at the Monastery Chapter II - The Old Buffoon Chapter III - Peasant Women Who Have Faith Chapter IV - A Lady of Little Faith Chapter V - So Be It! so Be It! Chapter VI - Why is Such a Man Alive? Chapter VII - A Young Man Bent on a Career Chapter VIII - The Scandalous Scene BOOK III - THE SENSUALISTS Chapter I - In the Servants' Quarters Chapter II - Lizaveta Chapter III - The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Verse Chapter IV - The Confession of a Passionate Heart—In Anecdote Chapter V - The Confession of a Passionate Heart—"Heels Up" Chapter VI - Smerdyakov Chapter VII - The Controversy Chapter VIII - Over the Brandy Chapter IX - The Sensualists Chapter X - Both Together Chapter XI - Another Reputation Ruined PART II BOOK IV - LACERATIONS Chapter I - Father Ferapont Chapter II - At His Father's Chapter III - A Meeting with the Schoolboys Chapter IV - At the Hohlakovs' Chapter V - A Laceration in the Drawing-Room Chapter VI - A Laceration in the Cottage Chapter VII - And in the Open Air BOOK V - PRO AND CONTRA Chapter I - The Engagement Chapter II - Smerdyakov with a Guitar Chapter III - The Brothers Make Friends Chapter IV - Rebellion Chapter V - The Grand Inquisitor Chapter VI - For Awhile a Very Obscure One Chapter VII - "It's Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man" BOOK VI - THE RUSSIAN MONK Chapter I - Father Zossima and His Visitors Chapter II - The Duel Chapter III - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima PART III BOOK VII - ALYOSHA Chapter I - The Breath of Corruption Chapter II - A Critical Moment Chapter III - An Onion Chapter IV - Cana of Galilee BOOK VIII - MITYA Chapter I - Kuzma Samsonov Chapter II - Lyagavy Chapter III - Gold-Mines Chapter IV - In the Dark Chapter V - A Sudden Resolution Chapter VI - "I Am Coming, Too!" Chapter VII - The First and Rightful Lover Chapter VIII - Delirium BOOK IX - THE PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION Chapter I - The Beginning of Perhotin's Official Career Chapter II - The Alarm Chapter III - The Sufferings of a Soul, the First Ordeal Chapter IV - The Second Ordeal Chapter V - The Third Ordeal Chapter VI - The Prosecutor Catches Mitya Chapter VII - Mitya's Great Secret Received with Hisses Chapter VIII - The Evidence of the Witnesses the Babe Chapter IX - They Carry Mitya Away PART IV BOOK X - THE BOYS Chapter I - Kolya Krassotkin Chapter II - Children Chapter III - The Schoolboy Chapter IV - The Lost Dog Chapter V - By Ilusha's Bedside Chapter VI - Precocity Chapter VII - Ilusha BOOK XI - IVAN Chapter I - At Grushenka's Chapter II - The Injured Foot Chapter III - A Little Demon Chapter IV - A Hymn and a Secret Chapter V - Not You, Not You! Chapter VI - The First Interview with Smerdyakov Chapter VII - The Second Visit to Smerdyakov Chapter VIII - The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov Chapter IX - The Devil Ivan's Nightmare Chapter X - "It was He Who Said that" BOOK XII - A JUDICIAL ERROR Chapter I - The Fatal Day Chapter II - Dangerous Witnesses Chapter III - The Medical Experts and a Pound of Nuts Chapter IV - Fortune Smiles on Mitya Chapter V - A Sudden Catastrophe Chapter VI - The Prosecutor's Speech Sketches of Character Chapter VII - An Historical Survey Chapter VIII - A Treatise on Smerdyakov Chapter IX - The Galloping Troika the End of the Prosecutor's Speech Chapter X - The Speech for the Defense an Argument that Cuts Both Ways Chapter XI - There was No Money there was No Robbery Chapter XII - And there was No Murder Either Chapter XIII - A Corrupter of Thought Chapter XIV - The Peasants Stand Firm EPILOGUE Chapter I - Plans for Mitya's Escape Chapter II - For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth Chapter III - Ilusha's Funeral the Speech at the Stone Endnotes
PART I
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BOOK I - THE HISTORY OF A FAMILY
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Chapter I - Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
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Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor PavlovitchKaramazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, andstill remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, whichhappened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its properplace. For the present I will only say that this "landowner"—for so weused to call him, although he hardly spent a day of his life on his ownestate—was a strange type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, atype abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one ofthose senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after theirworldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch,for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest;he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yetat his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hardcash. At the same time, he was all his life one of the most senseless,fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was notstupidity—the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd andintelligent enough—but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form ofit.
He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his firstwife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor Pavlovitch's firstwife, Adelaïda Ivanovna, belonged to a fairly rich and distinguished noblefamily, also landowners in our district, the Miüsovs. How it came to passthat an heiress, who was also a beauty, and moreover one of thosevigorous, intelligent girls, so common in this generation, but sometimesalso to be found in the last, could have married such a worthless, punyweakling, as we all called him, I won't attempt to explain. I knew a younglady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of anenigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily havemarried at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, andended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapidriver from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely tosatisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, ifthis precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been lesspicturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, mostlikely the suicide would never have taken place. This is a fact, andprobably there have been not a few similar instances in the last two orthree generations. Adelaïda Ivanovna Miüsov's action was similarly, nodoubt, an echo of other people's ideas, and was due to the irritationcaused by lack of mental freedom. She wanted, perhaps, to show herfeminine independence, to override class distinctions and the despotism ofher family. And a pliable imagination persuaded her, we must suppose, fora brief moment, that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasiticposition, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressiveepoch, though he was, in fact, an ill-natured buffoon and nothing more.What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement,and this greatly captivated Adelaïda Ivanovna's fancy. Fyodor Pavlovitch'sposition at the time made him specially eager for any such enterprise, forhe was passionately anxious to make a career in one way or another. Toattach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluringprospect. As for mutual love it did not exist apparently, either in thebride or in him, in spite of Adelaïda Ivanovna's beauty. This was,perhaps, a unique case of the kind in the life of Fyodor Pavlovitch, whowas always of a voluptuous temper, and ready to run after any petticoat onthe slightest encouragement. She seems to have been the only woman whomade no particular appeal to his senses.
Immediately after the elopement Adelaïda Ivanovna discerned in a flashthat she had no feeling for her husband but contempt. The marriageaccordingly showed itself in its true colors with extraordinary rapidity.Although the family accepted the event pretty quickly and apportioned therunaway bride her dowry, the husband and wife began to lead a mostdisorderly life, and there were everlasting scenes between them. It wassaid that the young wife showed incomparably more generosity and dignitythan Fyodor Pavlovitch, who, as is now known, got hold of all her money upto twenty-five thousand roubles as soon as she received it, so that thosethousands were lost to her for ever. The little village and the ratherfine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for along time to transfer to his name, by means of some deed of conveyance. Hewould probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire toget rid of him, and from the contempt and loathing he aroused by hispersistent and shameless importunity. But, fortunately, AdelaïdaIvanovna's family intervened and circumvented his greediness. It is knownfor a fact that frequent fights took place between the husband and wife,but rumor had it that Fyodor Pavlovitch did not beat his wife but wasbeaten by her, for she was a hot-tempered, bold, dark-browed, impatientwoman, possessed of remarkable physical strength.